The creek stages a gala, magical event, come autumn. It’s all done with light and water. Unlike illusionists using ‘smoke and mirrors’, the creek works with only natural props, and at “Presto!” reveals only vistas of solidly real beauty. Creek patter and flowing movements are not misdirection; they attract our attention at its keenest. It’s scheduled from whenever the leaves really start to turn, until . . .

I’m partial to intensely bright colors

I’m out in the woods using a camera to try to catch the creek at some of its ‘tricks’. I’m not a photographer, though, I’m a frustrated painter. I was always trying to play catch-up with nature, but nature was always light years ahead of me; well, duh.

The water grabs the light and bounces hues around, reflecting and cross-reflecting.

That large leaf is from a Broad Leaf Magnolia

Presenting mixed media collages of light, ripples, leaves attached and detached, water, sky, trees, swirls, waves, eddies, reflections, with a heavy reference to traditional landscape. The light changes moment by moment, creating new sights. I have to go snap snap snap with the camera to keep up. Getting this close, I like to fell in the creek last year!

Floating mat of leaves – it looks still, but will slowly wash on

The camera and the creek are doing this. I’ll only take credit for composing the shots and choosing the scenes. I don’t use photoshop to enhance hues, but the camera may have brightened or subdued some colors compared to what the human eye would see.

The following are from a later time of day with twilight coming on. Slanting rays and darker tones but still, the color blends appeal to me.

Lovely, lovely work-especially the reflective water images-the color and light are very impressionistic which really give a softness to the overall photograph-
Thank you too for visiting Move the Chair-I appreciate you taking the time to look-

Thank you for liking “Long Exposure Photography.” I admire these beautiful photos of autumn leaves and trees and water reflections. The creek looks so peaceful. I also enjoyed seeing the picture of your cute cat. Good luck with your book! :)

My pleasure visiting! I really enjoyed the post about St. Louis and Budweiser, and the sense of place it conveyed. It’s great to share common ground! The camera really does most of the work for me; I only choose the scenes and the framing.

You would (if you don’t already know) probably like the Cavan series of paintings by Brian Rutenberg. This series of paintings is an attempt to do exactly what you are doing. And His Algonquin series is also similar. http://www.brianrutenbergart.com/catalogs.html

Outstanding work between you view on the streams to go with some excellent photographs of the reflections in the water. Photographing a reflection can take an ordinary subject and turn it into a work of artistic expression or an abstract form, and you capture this very well with many of your images. Well Done!

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